Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I enjoy playing with Gala because they seek to spin the ball where possible but we really have n't played all that well this season , mainly because we have n't been able to win enough quality ball . |
| 2 | Not that Susanna Cellini — or Belford-Cellini as she apparently preferred to be known — would be impressed , but neither could she be disparaging . |
| 3 | And if I had n't met the people I 've met , I think I 'd 've been a very frustrated person cos erm , even though you can think of something , un unless , if you have other people you can go , if you say to somebody you could say , oh God , you know let's do this and this and this , or I think , really think this or this and someone else goes yes I do |
| 4 | Not knowing the decorative style of the new home is an important point to bear in mind when planning a picture of this sort , so it is always best to choose colours and frames that are attractive without being so dramatic or colourful that you considerably reduce their hanging potential . |
| 5 | Reddy acknowledges objections that rewarded gifting might delay the development of a cadaver transplant programme , but argues that as ‘ the medical , legal , economic , technological , and logistic infrastructure required to set up such a programme in India simply does not exist … is the payment of money to a willing , informed adult , who happens to be poor and needy , so unethical or immoral that it alone determines whether people should be allowed to live or die ? ’ |
| 6 | There are in staffrooms ( as there are in every institution ) tacit rules that define what is collectively thought of as normal , acceptable , odd or inept and which therefore influence the kind of reputation and influence an individual has . |
| 7 | Of course , if disturbances occur to aggregate demand , buyers or sellers who have agreed on a price P and a quantity to be traded y n will find themselves buying or selling more or less than they now think is optimal , but that is not the point . |
| 8 | It is true that as human beings we may be able to empathize with social work clients who are short of money or bereaved as we probably have been in these situations ourselves . |
| 9 | But it is at scrum-half or stand-off that he eventually aims to establish himself . |
| 10 | Anyway , that took a year or two and I even remember taking my next brother to school , me mother saying Take Frank to school and tell Miss , he 's your brother and he 's five . |
| 11 | And indeed the anthropomorphism of the sociobiologists goes much further than that since they regularly employ a language which derives directly from the ideology of twentieth-century capitalism : investment , costs , benefits are central elements in their vocabulary . |
| 12 | The income er , the laboratory you can see last year ma made a surfeit of seventy five thousand pounds , the budgetary purchases we always assume the laboratory will simply cover its expenditure , in reality we hope they will be slightly better than that and they generally do . |
| 13 | Motion will have to do better than this if he seriously intends his series of novels to capture the feel of a period . |
| 14 | The school or LEA would have to show that , for example , a requirement which affected one group more than another and which therefore resulted in indirect discrimination , was justifiable irrespective of a person 's race . |
| 15 | He then decided he could make a better biplane than many that he daily worked upon and with his four brothers ( Tom , Mark , Bob and Ed ) , they built the first ‘ Gee Bee ’ . |
| 16 | Thomas was two years younger than I and I never met him till the year I left St. Paul 's School ( 1894 ) . |
| 17 | As is now clear , it was this totally unnecessary act of hubris that more than anything else frightened the voters away . |
| 18 | ‘ That is a worse reproach to me than any that she ever uttered . ’ |
| 19 | Where women are illustrated the results are often less than desirable for they frequently seem to be included for their decorative or ‘ selling ’ power . |
| 20 | It all washed down and that and we never had any trouble . |
| 21 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 22 | His brother Carl , who also lives in Italy , said : ‘ We are all shocked and upset but we just hope nothing precious has been stolen . |
| 23 | In fact it is so fluent , precise and subtle that we often fail to notice it . |
| 24 | Once the winter rains have passed , Delhi experiences two months of weather so perfect and blissful that they almost compensate for the climatic extremes of the other ten months of the year . |
| 25 | She was feeling vulnerable and neglected , he was fun and rich and she clearly enjoyed his company . |
| 26 | He was so big and strong that I always felt hopelessly trapped in that chair with his bulk over me and the wheel grinding and the pedal thumping . |
| 27 | He obtained 103,244 votes ( 55.08 per cent ) in the second round , against 84,178 votes ( almost 45 per cent ) for Mohammed Taki , who had been Speaker of the National Assembly between 1980 and 1985 but who now represented the Union nationale pour la démocratie aux Comores ( UNDC ) . |
| 28 | The tow rope snapped twice on the way and was getting shorter and shorter before we eventually got to Darlington . |
| 29 | How the whole process is cheaper and easier than your probably imagine , and with our state of the art equipment there 'll be no danger of having to replace it in years to come . |
| 30 | She almost ran from the room , as if afraid that her newly found resolve would melt away if she did not immediately put it into practice . |